Recent content by Erlenmeyer Flask

I get the concerns these guys have, but... honestly, it is far too late to be complaining on the eve of the event. I have no doubt that it would be extraordinarily expensive to pull SMITE right now even if the Penny Arcade guys actually wanted to. They probably don't even have time to move the...

This is actually significantly less silly than real life - General Mills, better known for their popular cereal brands, also made a submarine called the DSV Alvin, which was used to (among other things) explore the wreck of the Titanic.

There have been videogames about the same subject; Off the top of my head, there were Smash TV and Madworld, and there were likely more as well. True, as far as I know none of them specifically involves teenagers, but those come darn close.

There's an interesting story about the shipped ME3 ending, actually... Drew Karpyshyn, the original Mass Effect writer, had planned a very different ending. Now, it wasn't the best ending in the world from what I've seen leaked of it. But it fit with the game's lore and asked some pretty hard...

You seem to be misunderstanding the context in which Casey Hudson made the remark about A, B, C. Specifically, he was referring to the notion of someone talking to their friend and saying, "Hey, I got the A ending!" It clearly applies to the six color-coded endings that ME3 actually has, and it...

At some level, every bit of "story" needs to be prewritten. This is true. On the other hand... would you say that the entire Mass Effect series can be boiled down to an ABC affair? No, of course not. Because, while all the possible choices exist in the games before you've even played them, there...